The Soviet Union in the Cold War
Subtitle: from Stalin to Gorbachev
By: Vladislav M. Zubok.
Series: New Cold War history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780807830987
Subjects: Cold War; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991
Description: Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues the author. Explaining the interests, aspirations illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and the Soviet elites, the author offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Soviet people and Stalin between war and peace, 1945; title: Stalin's road to the cold war, 1945 -1948; title: Stalemate in Germany, 1945 -1953; title: Kremlin politics and "peaceful coexistence," 1953 -1957; title: The nuclear education of Khrushchev, 1953 -1963; title: The Soviet home front: first cracks, 1953 -1968; title: Brezhnev and the road to detente, 1965 -1972; title: Detente's decline and soviet overreach, 1973 -1979; title: The old guard's exit, 1980 -1987; title: Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, 1988 -1991.